Peter W. Cary and Robert R. Stewart

ABSTRACT

A four-component ocean-bottom seismometer (OBS) survey was acquired over the
White Rose oilfield, offshore Newfoundland in the summer of 2002. The survey
consisted of 21 OBS units (normally used in crustal refraction experiments) deployed
over 1 km with 12 sources lines from a towed air gun. There were numerous problems
with the data, but some promising final sections were achieved for both PP waves
(largely on the vertical channel) and PS waves (mainly on the radial channel). Processes
applied to the data included data clipping repair, F-K and tau-p filtering, PP and PS
stacking, and post-stack migration. Final images indicate considerable promise for
multicomponent marine data in this area.